Chapter 0350: Airport Conflict
Leaving the Japanese consulate, Feng Chen came directly to the editorial office of "Current Affairs Weekly", and in the editorial office, Wang Tiemin was sorting out the sundries in the room. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"President, you're back, Mr. Xu upstairs was looking for you just now." Wang Tiemin threw down the work at hand, poured a cup of tea for Feng Chen, and put it in front of Feng Chen.
"Oh? Where is he? Feng Chen asked.
"Seeing that you were not there, he went upstairs, saying that he would come down later." Wang Tiemin replied.
"I'll go up and see if he's there."
Feng Chen left the editorial office and came directly to Xu Jian's office on the fifth floor of the Zhonghui Bank building.
Xu Jian, who was wiping the pistol, saw Feng Chen walk in, immediately dropped the pistol in his hand, got up and gave Feng Chen a standard military salute: "Report to Team Leader Feng, Lieutenant Colonel Action Team Leader Xu Jian reports to you." ”
"Hehe, Brother Xu, I said it, in private, we are called brothers, don't be polite, you were notified so soon?" Feng Chen smiled slightly, stepped forward, patted Xu Jian's shoulder and asked.
"Yes! As soon as I got to work in the afternoon, Chief Shen Zui Shen came over to inform me that from today onwards, I will be under your direct leadership, and all the equipment on this floor will be handed over to our intelligence group, and other unrelated personnel will be withdrawn. Xu Jian replied.
"This one is drunk, and he moves very quickly." Feng Chen muttered.
"Team Leader Feng, is our intelligence group specifically dealing with the Japanese?" Xu Jian asked.
"In the future, I can't call the big brother, and I can't call the team leader in public, remember, in public, my name is Su Chen." Feng Chen instructed Xu Jian.
"I remember." Only then did Xu Jian remember to pour tea for Feng Chen.
Feng Chen took the teacup handed over by Xu Jian, sat down on the sofa and asked, "Is there a radio station here?" ”
"Yes, in the room at the top." Xu Jian replied.
"Xu Jian, in your opinion, is it appropriate to set up a radio station here?" Feng Chen always felt that it was not very safe to put the radio station in this place.
"It's not suitable, I think the radio station should look for a secret place, where the target is big and easy to be suspected by others." Xu Jian replied.
"Okay, I'll leave this task to you, find a secret place in the French Concession to hide the radio station, don't be too far from here." Feng Chen commanded.
"Actually, there is a very suitable place, and you have to come forward." Xu Jian said.
"Oh? Which place? Feng Chen asked.
"There are two houses in the backyard of the Geume Sichuan restaurant, and there is a basement underneath, so we can rent one and set up the radio station in the basement." Xu Jian replied.
"How do you know there's a basement in that place?" Feng Chen looked at Xu Jian.
"Before renting this house, there was a French wine shop, and the basement in the backyard was used by the French to store wine." Xu Jian replied to Feng Chen's gaze.
"I see, you've investigated all the houses on Edoa Road before?" Feng Chen asked.
"Yes, Chief Shen has handed over all these materials to our intelligence team." Xu Jian said.
"Good! It's fun to be drunk. Feng Chen was very grateful to Shen Zui for being able to support him like this.
"It's just one thing, if our radio station decides to be placed in the Jinjiang Sichuan restaurant, we can't hide it from the restaurant's owner, Dong Lanjun, Chief Shen has been thinking about this factor before, so he didn't put the radio there." Xu Jian explained the reason why Shen Zui set up the radio station on the fifth floor.
"I'll negotiate tomorrow, you now take an inventory of the items here, make a register, and after everyone arrives tomorrow, let's discuss how to carry out the work together."
Feng Chen took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, it was nearly five o'clock, he explained a few words to Xu Jian, and left the fifth floor, he wanted to report today's matter to Comrade An Zhida.
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Just as Feng Chen was on his way to the library of Fudan University, at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, an incident occurred that affected the direction of the Sino-Japanese War.
At about 5 p.m., Lieutenant Yuo Oyama and Saito, a first-class sailor, were to hide in military uniforms and drive a Ford tent military car with No. 56 test license plate on it to drive sharply from east to west along Hongqiao Road.
At around 4 o'clock, Yuo Oyama received an order from the Marine Corps Command to go to Hongqiao Airport to reconnoiter and see if there were any Chinese regular troops guarding the airport, because according to the provisions of the "Sino-Japanese Songhu Armistice Agreement" signed in May 1932, there could be no Chinese regular troops stationed in Shanghai.
This Oyama Yongo actually wore a Japanese Marine Corps uniform and drove a military vehicle to Hongqiao Airport, which shows how arrogant this person is.
Yuo Oyama drove a Japanese military vehicle to forcibly enter Hongqiao Airport, but was stopped by the security guards guarding the airport, and he did not expect that these airport guards were not ordinary security guards, but regular soldiers of the Nationalist Army who had secretly arrived in Shanghai not long ago.
In July, after the Lugou Bridge incident, the situation in Shanghai became tense.
In order to defend the political and economic centers of Nanjing and Shanghai, and to guard against the Japanese attack from Shanghai; In order to turn the Sino-Japanese War into a world war and induce the main force of the Japanese army to fight in East China, Lao Chiang took the initiative to strengthen the national defense construction and armed forces in the Songhu area.
In mid-July, on the basis of Wang Jingjiu's troops and Sun Yuanliang's troops of the 88th Division, which had already assembled in the vicinity of Shanghai, the Nationalist Army ordered the well-equipped supplementary brigade of the 2nd Division to sail from Zhecheng, Henan Province, to Suzhou, and put it under the command of Zhang Zhizhong, then commander of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison.
Zhang Zhizhong suggested to Lao Chiang that regular troops should be sent to Hongqiao Airport disguised as security guards to prevent the Japanese army from seizing this strategic place in wartime.
Zhang Zhizhong's suggestion was agreed to by Chiang Kai-shek, so the Military Commission ordered the Second Regiment of the Second Division Supplementary Brigade to change into the uniform of the security team and secretly stationed at strategic points such as Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport to enrich Shanghai's troops.
The second regiment was actually a gendarme, the soldiers were well equipped and of high quality.
Yang Wenjing, deputy commander of the Supplementary Brigade, who was deeply aware of his heavy responsibility, made a special trip to Nanjing to meet with He Yingqin, minister of military affairs, to ask for specific instructions.
After He Yingqin learned about this, he also reminded Zhang Zhizhong and said: "Wenbai, this is going to cause trouble!" ”
He Yingqin's fears quickly became a reality that afternoon.
Yuo Oyama didn't take these airport security guards seriously, he wanted to force his way into the airport, and a fierce argument broke out between the two sides, and the dispute escalated instantly due to the language barrier and communication difficulties.
The two Japanese soldiers not only ignored the dissuasion, but became more and more arrogant, and finally even drew their pistols to threaten, and the military police of the 2nd Regiment fired warning shots at the sky when they saw this.
Seeing that things were not good, the two of them drove away in a panic, turned right sharply, and drove the car onto Beifang Road.
The Chinese soldiers on high alert near the airport, hearing the gunshots, did not know what was happening, so they opened fire on the Japanese military vehicles that were fleeing rapidly, and the machine guns hidden in the entrance of the airport also opened fire.
Yuo Oyama's car had its tires damaged, and he lost control and rushed into a vegetable patch on the side of the road, only to abandon the car and flee.
A cook soldier of the 2nd Regiment who was working in the kitchen of the airport heard a series of gunshots, and quickly climbed up the wall to observe, just in time to see Yuo Oyama and Saito Yokuzo brandishing pistols to escape.
The cook immediately pulled out a grenade and threw it, killing Yuo Oyama on the spot, and a panicked Saito wanted to hide his gun and fled to the small jungle next to him.
After hearing the gunshots, the sentry was closely watching the movement in the direction of the airfield, and when he saw a Japanese soldier running towards him with a pistol, he immediately raised his gun and shot him.
After receiving the report, the Shanghai Garrison Command ordered the soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of the Supplementary Brigade stationed at the airport to move the bodies of the killed Yuo Oyama and Saito Yoshizo to the damaged Japanese military vehicles.
Next, the garrison command took a condemned prisoner out of prison, changed into the uniform of the military police of the Second Regiment, and shot him at the gate of the Hongqiao airport.
It seemed seamless, but it was self-defeating, and the Japanese and those involved in the investigation from other countries saw the flaw, and the Japanese believed that the killing of the two Japanese soldiers was a deliberate provocation by the Chinese side.